Old Watercolors Show Up To Be Better Than New
Metropolitan Museum of Art hosts a double barreled exhibition celebrating the American Watercolor Society centennial. Stuart Feld curates a 206 year retrospective featuring 250 works by 107 artists with 166 pieces drawn from the Met’s own collections.
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America
Metropolitan Museum of Art
American Watercolor Society
Stuart P. Feld
Met
Alexander Calder
Helen Frankenthaler
Winslow Homer
Thomas Eakins
Charles Burchfield
John Marin
Andrew Wyeth
Marin
Burchfield
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Homer
Bermuda
Bahamas
Eakins Shawn
John Singer Sargent
Francis Ormond
Georgia O’keeffe
Stieglitz
Charles de
Nostalgia From the Twenties and North Carolina Poetry
Charles Angoff surveys the 1920s editor writers and critics scene with portraits of Mencken Nathan Lewis and others. The piece also reviews Winslow Homer Eakins Burchfield Marin Wyeth watercolors and a North Carolina poetry anthology featuring 37 poets and 128 poems including H Glen Lanier and Jean King Cude.
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Charles Angoff
A. S. Barnes
Angoff
Times
American Mercury
H. L. Mencken
George Jean Nathan
Republic
Sally W. Nixon
John F. Blair
Winston- Salem
Blair
The
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North Carolina
Kitty Hawk
H. Glen Lanier
Welcome
Davidson County
High Point College
Duke University
Lexington
Asheboro
Thomasville
Charlotte
High Point
Asheville
Jean King Cude
Kernersville
Judy Canova Plans TV Comeback and Real Estate Sale
Judy Canova announces a return to television with a CBS role on Pistols and Petticoats set for January 9. She is selling Florida and Hollywood property to fund the move and may expand into religious radio and TV work, featuring singing talking and letter answering with a choir.
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Hollywood
Judy Canova
Florida
CBS
Nature Can Be Funny Nature Can Be Funny
Gerald Durrell shares a six month journey through New Zealand Australia and a Malayan jungle with wife and crew. The book blends travel adventure wildlife sketches and humor as they chase rare species and remote habitats. Durrell’s vivid anecdotes include lizards emu encounters and a talking sense of wild wonder.
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Gerald Durrell
Viking
Durrell
New Zealand
Australia
Old Spotty
Russians In Paree The Birds Fall Down
Rebecca West reviews a novel about exiled Russians in Paris who seek homeland nostalgia amid lavish Russian artifacts. The critique notes overlong prose yet acknowledges a strong spy plot grounded in a famous historical railway conversation.
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Rebecca West
Viking Press
Paris
Russia
Steppes
Rebecca
Arts Council Saves Ballet Rambert With Last-Minute Grant
Dame Marie Rambert, 78, sees a buoyant future for Ballet Rambert after a near final curtain. The British Arts Council stepped in with a grant following the company’s last May performance. Rambert, born to a Russian mother and Polish father, helped shape British ballet and founded the Rambert School with Ashley Dukes.
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London
Dame Marie
Rambert
British Arts Council
Dame Marie Rambert
Marie
Madame
Opera Grand And Not So Grand
Mary Jane Matz critiques modern opera in this inside view from Opera News staff experience. She traces shifts from singers to directors, economic pressures, and the airplane era's impact on careers, noting the rise of opera as business and the decline of adventurous new works.
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Mary Jane Matz
Morrow
Opera News
United States
Europe
Peripatetic Mischa Elman Remains Active at 76
Violinist Mischa Elman, now 76, continues globe trotting for concert tours, critiquing modern music culture and urging individuality in performance. The feature notes his views on critics, technique versus emotion, and references to other major artists.
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